The Development of External Assessors’ Competencies in the 21st Century for Supporting Assessment Efficiencies in the Vocational Education System of Thailand
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The objective of this article is to explore competencies of external assessors in the 21st century, which could support the assessment efficiency of vocational education system in Thailand, by synthesizing competencies and its indicators through implementation of the Delphi technique from 19 vocational-related experts selected by the purposive sampling. After synthesis, the competencies were analyzed by the Conformity Factor Analysis (CFA) through A computer statistical analysis system with a sample of 272 vocational assessors collected by the convenience sampling via online questionnaires. The results revealed that the assessors’ competencies in the 21st century should consist of three core competencies: 1) knowledge related to vocational education consisting of six sub-competencies--(1) contexts of vocational education; (2) quality assurance system; (3) study program and teaching management; (4) institutional management; (5) education direction; and
(6) trends and direction of labor market; 2) skills consisting of eight sub-competencies--(1) teamwork;
(2) digital literacy for assessment; (3) communication on assessment; (4) data collection; (5) analysis, interpretation and evaluation; (6) report writing; (7) suggestion capability; and (8) solving of unexpected problems; and 3) attributes consisting of two sub-competencies--(1) assessment ethics and
(2) professionalism of assessors. After testing the three-core competencies and sub-competencies by using the second-order CFA method to measure validity of the construct, the analysis results showed that χ2 values = 88.50, p value = 0.266, GFI = 0.96, AGFI = 0.93, RMSEA = 0.018 and RMR = 0.009, with statistical significance at the 0.05 level, and each indicator had a confidence coefficient between 0.32 - 0.90. The key finding of this study indicated that the sub-competencies, especially managerial knowledge of the vocational institutes, communication skills, and capability to provide suggestions should be taken into account for the assessment of vocational education system. Furthermore, promotion of ethics should be a primary indicator for the assessment efficiency of external assessors in the 21st century. Correspondingly, supporting the professionalism of external assessors could improve work competency and lead to higher quality of vocational education in Thailand.
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1. กองบรรณาธิการสงวนสิทธิ์ในการพิจารณาและตัดสินการตีพิมพ์บทความในวารสาร
2. บทความทุกเรื่องจะได้รับการตรวจสอบทางวิชาการโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ แต่ข้อความและเนื้อหาในบทความที่ตีพิมพ์เป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียนแต่เพียงผู้เดียว มิใช่ความคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบของมหาวิทยาลัยศรีปทุม
3. การคัดลอกอ้างอิงต้องดำเนินการตามการปฏิบัติในหมู่นักวิชาการโดยทั่วไป และสอดคล้องกับกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้อง
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